August 3, 2019

Sustainable development assumes a fundamental transition to a new economic paradigm, built on an inclusive, holistic and a long-term view of the economic well-being that should be achieved through higher levels of economic production, inclusive and sustainable industrialization, economic diversification and technological upgrading. Such a fundamental transition requires a series of connected transformations of socio-technical …

Innovation and Sustainable Development: harnessing frontier technologies to leave no one behind Read More »

Implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, achieving the SDGs, assumes a transition from our petroleum-based linear economy to the climate-neutral circular economy paradigm. The goals of this transition are: (i) building a more innovative, inclusive and low-emissions economy through modernizing the existing and developing new supply chains and business models; (ii) reducing our …

Bioeconomy: EU policies towards strengthening the connection between economy, society and the environment Read More »

Estimates reveal that up to US$7trn a year is needed to achieve the SDGs by 2030. Public finance is not sufficient to meet this demand. There is a pressing need to attract private capital in order to close a larger part of the US$2.5 trillion annual gap in financing the SDGs (UNCTAD, 2015). If met, …

On the role of the Securities Regulators in supporting the Sustainable Development goals Read More »

Sustainable investing has been perceived as sacrificing some financial return is the belief that fiduciary duty means focusing only on returns—thereby ignoring ESG factors that can affect them, particularly over time. However, more recent legal opinions and regulatory guidelines make it clear that it is a violation of fiduciary duty not to consider such factors. …

Rethinking fiduciary duty fo sustainable development Read More »

Consumption of natural resources and materials, driven by the growth in world population and the rise of living standards, happens at an unprecedented pace, projectedto nearly double by 2060.It happens despite a shift from manufacturing to service industries, improvements in industrial efficiency and a global slowdown of the economic growth, led by China (OECD, 2019)In …

On the macro-legal parameters of a global circular economy transition Read More »

The world’s largest rainforest has been burning for almost 20 days. The situation has created shock and indignation for people around the world, but the real problem has been slowly increasing for the past 30 years due to a long and fast-moving deforestation phenomenon. Although there are still no figures of the magnitude of the …

Chronicles of a Death Foretold: The Fires of the Brazilian Amazon as a Result of Government Anti-Environmental Policies Read More »